out before they can confirm it it to the media, to the public. but they do a public here very much key. if this was more than a car accident, if this was a deliberate attack, people will want to have to authorities label it as quickly as possible. again, this taking pce just outsideinsbury park mosque. people frustrated, it is not being called a terrorist incident. that s what the locals here are saying. again, we haven t heard from the authorities. that investigation still taking place, and those individuals, those victims still being tended to in hospitals, ari. you re hearing from locals if this was an attack just targeting muslim worshippers that somehow it would be treated less seriously or less like terror if it were poemgsy tentin
plowed into a crowd of people near a finsbury mosque, automatic police have not released any information on the incident. and speak if you will as to how investigators will look to the fact it is ramadan and it s sunday night. listening to malcolm and jim, i think they both bring an interesting point. it s probably worth noting the u.k. is under a severe terror watch. it means an attack to them is likely. if the eyewitness accounts are correct, in terms of eyewitness accounts, time has a way of slowing itself down. but if it was, you would imagine if this mosque was extremist, and indicated it s no longer, there would be a heightened system. second, if you look at the
and they also were known for exporting that extremist in some of the big terrorist. richard reed, known as the shoe bomber, tried to blow up an airplane heading to united states. he was a part of that mosque. and a man lost his eye and injured himself trying to build a bomb. and he was a teacher that teached faith and all of that changed after the british raided that mosque back in 2005. and then the mosque got rid of all the extremists who were in management and the community took that mosque back. and it s considered now a hub, a tarragon of anti-extremism.
charity in the u.k. and a mosque as we ve been discussing over the course of the hour was once known over 15 years ago as louis place known by the infamous member, the shoe bomber richard reed but has been significantly reformed after both law enforcement and local muslim community leaders engaged it and reopened it. malcolm, could you give our viewers a little more insight on that peaiece, and i will repeat our caution looking at the possible overlap and possible theories. but again, we don t know what kind of targeting was going on in what direction ear whether this was a dlib act. right. well, back in the 1980s, the fins burzy mosque was cnn as sort of a hotbed of islamic, jihadist extmism.
actually imbed officers with foreign police forces. you have nypd officers in the uk and in spain and, in fact, in spain and the madrid bombings in 2004, nypd was one of the first u.s. agencies on the scene and going to quebec in january when there was an attack in a mosque. the nypd again stepped up immediately protection. i take that if that is the case, nypd is, in fact, security around mosque, we know they have a history of bei imbedded with the uk and have officers most likely there, that is a very telling sign as to what they believe has happened. they don t deal with top secret or secret stuff. this is nypd. i think it s a very, very telling sign and perhaps that is the best indicator where this is going. when you look at something like this that is a single individual, then, how do you interpret that?